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【10/11 今日美史】1987年首例艾滋病被公布

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10/11

AIDS Quilt Unveiled

When

Where

Who

 What 


When:  1987
Where: Washington DC 

Who:

The NAMES Project Foundation

What:

Conceived as a way to honor those who have died from the AIDs pandemic and dismantle some of the stigma against its victims, the massive patchwork quilt contains memorials to only approximately 20% of the disease's victims.


Why

significant


Throughout the 1980's and into the 1990's victims of AIDs were treated with fear to outright contempt.  The failure to understand how the disease spread led to social and even medical ostracization with many funeral homes even refusing to serve those who died. The NAMES Project not only sought to memorialize the dead but also return a sense of dignity to them.


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AIDS, victims' rights

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